COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE
ACADEMIC SENATE
MARCH 9, 2007
MINUTES
(APPROVED MARCH 23, 2007)
The meeting convened at 12:30 p.m.
Present: T. Aldredge, M. Barkley, C. Carter, K. Codella, M. Duffy, P. Hansen, G.
Hodgkinson, E. Hoskins, W. LaNier, E. Lopez, M.McClurg-MacKinnon, M. Moore,
J. Nye, S. Palm, T. Parker, L. Sneed, BJ Snowden, N. Wellsfry.
Announcements: Welcome and Introductions
 Ruth Oxman announced that story telling week is next week. The ideas have been
flowing for Women’s History Month. Look for email from Leslie Gayle about
different participants and attend the telling of their stories.
 Maureen Moore: Perceptions Discussion Group: Sex, slaves and the trafficking of
women in SOC Conference room Tues. March 20 from 1 – 2:30. Let Maureen know
if you are bringing a class so she can get a larger venue.
 Winnie LaNier - March 21 at 3:30 in Orchard Room there will be a tea party with
presentations on different tea service traditions. RSVP to Student Development
Office.
 Travis Parker announced that Sunday the 18th, Inspirational speaker, George
MacKinnon will be speaking in Sacramento. Tickets are $60, and he encourages
students to attend. Scholarships can be made available.
 Michelle Barkley says on Wed, Mar. 28th, they will be going to Liz Belyea’s class on
the hour at 9, 10, and 11, - to talk about Women Escaping a Violent Environment
along with representatives from WEAVE. Anyone is welcome. Donations will be
taken for WEAVE. Also, if you want to see updates on Facilities Management and
what is going on, email her for web link.
 Linda Sneed: new student clubs have formed called Society of Ethics and Justice, and
Eco Club and they are aligning themselves with the Social Responsibility Committee.
Lots of enthusiasm and sincerity from the students involved.
 ECE Club is sponsoring a book drive. They need gently used children’s books or
adult fiction. Please drop off books anytime in March at Child Development Center.
They will be donated to Sacrament Crisis Nursery, Shriners Hospital, and Ronald
McDonald center.
ACTION ITEMS
 Minutes from Feb. 23, 2006 approved with addition of members in attendance and
assessment numbers from counseling. Ed Initiative should be for 18-20 year olds,
not 18-25 year olds.
 Approval of the Agenda with addition of proposed revision of 51112.
BRIEF REPORTS
President’s Report— G. Hodgkinson
 April 14th is the GALA at Raley’s Field. Should be a great time! Gala from 3-6,
with a baseball game at 6 after the food, auction, and bar are done. Money raised
will support athletics on campus. Tickets are $50 and included parking.
 Congratulations to Travis Parker. He received the Heritage Award for an
outstanding educator, and was written up in the Elk Grove Citizen newspaper for
his contributions to local students.
 CASSL position announcement will be out by March 16th.
 Georgine talked with Francisco about new Center progress. Classes likely to start
in Fall ’08. Senate will continue to be involved. Make sure that student services
is involved in the activities of the center. Teresa wants to make sure there is
representation for all student services at the meeting, including DSPS, counseling,
and more.
 SLOs of Student Services have some specific outcomes based on Goal area #4
 SARS – tracking system that may be usable for some of the tracking that we want
to do, but may be a challenge. It is not integrated with other campus software,
and is hard to query, but considered worthwhile to master. May consider ways to
pilot a SARS integration piece by individual class or faculty. Georgine
encourages Student Services to consult with Kathy McLain. It was brought up
that we need to have good research data in order to do all the assessments and
other tasks that are being requested. There is frustration district wide on
campuses due to the lack of research capability. Dave Aagard is head of District
Matriculation and he has been working hard to help with this. Faculty are
encouraged to stick together in requesting better information about how to use
SARS or how to get better results from the program.
 Board of Governor’s has sent a directive to the State to look at an assessment
process that is system-wide. March 30th in Chancellor’s Office for more
discussion.
 Send input to Estella Hoskins on pros and cons for having a community college
assessment that is the same for all campuses in the state. Currently the process to
review assessments taken on a different campus is very cumbersome and lengthy,
requiring lots of people and lots of documentation. If there is a state-wide
assessment that is accepted, we could forego this process. We would still have to
locally validate the assessments.
 Assessment Task Force will probably meet again before the end of the semester.
Ed Initiative – Snowden and Nye  Productive meeting yesterday. Trying to expand the 18-20 cohort. The percent
who work half time or more has gone down by 8% from 2002- 2006. Non-white
has increased. For the new programs, our base is Fall 2006. At CRC we had
about 1680 students as first time freshman, and we are comparing those who
participated in any of the Ed Initiative programs vs. those who did not.
Compressed Calendar –
 Committee Work. How much impact will this have on the meeting times for
shared governance? There needs to be support staff on campus for early and late
classes. Duplicating, secretaries, folks to unlock the bathrooms, etc., all need to
be in place when the campus opens.
Elections for Senate.
 Lisa is absent – but we will vote the last week of March for new executive team
for Senate.

Teaching Institute and California Change Network – M. Duffy reported on the
two conferences.
Proposed Changes to Discipline List 1. Changes to proposed minimum qualifications and adding programs in
Marriage and Family, and Public Health, approved by consensus.
2. Proposal to create a new discipline in Creative Writing was discussed
and felt to be too exclusive of professor’s who might have their degree
in literature. Vote against without clarification on equivalency. Is this
a sub discipline and is this desirable?
3. ASL – should we raise the requirements for those who teach it? Kim
Harrell will be asked.
4. New discipline in International Studies program was discussed. We
need more International/ Global studies based on mission of CCC, and
any master’s degree with an emphasis in global studies. At present we
are not in favor, but Martin Morales will be consulted and asked to
give Georgine feedback.
5. Reduction of requirements vetoed for last options on dance and yoga.
DISCUSSION ITEMS
 Norv Wellsfry – PROF and Unit Planning. He handed out a multi-page grid for
planning and prioritizing.
 Division Dean is going to be instrumental in bringing the Unit Plan together.
Program Reviews should already be done, now Divisions need to develop Unit
Plan.
 Stage 1 identifies issues as a department through PROF. Stage 2 will develop
strategies for addressing the issues and the resources that are required to solve the
problems of stage 1, and prioritize them.
 The unit plan strategies must be able to be accomplished in the next three years.
Once it is defined, we must decide who will be responsible for carrying out the
strategies, and how success will be measured. New faculty should be identified
through this process. New classified must be defined through this process, as well
as hardware and other needs. Faculty must identify their needs and communicate
this to the division Dean.
Future Discussion Items:
 Re-agendize the impact of compressed calendar on committee meeting schedules.
 Senators should report back that they discussed Norv’s spreadsheet on Unit Planning
with their department members.
TO DO:
 Make a folder for Estella Hoskins
 Make sure Student Services is represented on Compressed Calendar Committee.
ADJOURNMENT at 2:06 p.m.
Next Meeting:
March 23, 2007, Orchard Room
Minutes respectfully submitted by Marjorie Duffy